Word: cementation
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...even Red Chinese have their fingers in almost every facet of the government from the physical education program to economic planning. Under their guidance, Guinea has replaced the French franc with a currency of its own printed in Czechoslovakia. Western goods have vanished from shop shelves, and Communist cement clogs the wharves in payment for Guinea's bananas...
...Best Man. In a hectic political convention, Playwright Gore Vidal shuffles his cardboard characters with dexterity, but since no issue is ever mentioned, they could just as well be competing for the presidency of a cement company...
...Best Man. In the setting of a frenetic political convention, Playwright Gore Vidal shuffles his cardboard characters with dexterity, but, since no issue is ever mentioned, they could just as well be competing for the presidency of a cement company...
...Arnold Palmer, the game begun so long ago on the Latrobe golf course has obviously been good. But Palmer plays it for more than mere money; he plays it out of love. His ambition is to cement his place in golfing history by building up a record of victories in the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open and the P.G.A. Fellow professionals need no such dramatic proof of Palmer's prowess: they already rank him as golfing's best...
...Allen White observed while discussing the villain of this biography, that 20% of the people are permanently gullible. And it may be that White's figure is low. John R. Brinkley, a small, dapper, goateed North Carolinian, who seemed certain that society rests upon a thick substratum of cement-heads, combined elements of the demagogue and the religious faker, but above all he was a medical quack-perhaps the greatest quack ever to barter colored water for cash. Author Carson tells the story in a slapdash, cornball style that suits his subject well...